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I'm raising a glass to you from my relatively weightless position. Spring is arriving, you rest your way into winter. Hugs!

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Ya know, the Doc insinuated just such an idea.

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I second that. Mine was found with a mammogram ten full years ago. Even knowing where it was, you could not feel it. Don't skip those mammograms.

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I'm using the knee scooter thing at home, so I'm mostly weightless, and the boot and cane when I go out. So I'm already 50% better behaved. :lol: Anyone else ever hear of these screws breaking? In the leg? Even Doc admitted it was kind of weird the top two broke, but not the one closest to the fract...

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Went to doc today fully expecting to be released to PT. He came in exam room a little wide-eyed; two of the three screws above the break on the tibia have themselves broken. I have two choices at the moment: Stay the hell off it for another month, or have surgery to repair them. I honestly almost fa...

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How awful! I agree with everyone; the safety and well-being of your kids is your first and most important job. Period. This is a bad guy. It hasn't been just one, or even two infractions, but a list of bad and dangerous behavior. I'd have trouble being on the same block as the guy.

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Nothing other than while visiting Orchard Beach OR a number of years ago a couple had a rescue pair they'd walk on the beach early in the morning when the tide was out. I say "walk" euphemistically. They'd turn the dogs loose and those dogs turned into liquid silver streaking across the op...

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bascar wrote:excitingly, the central part of the house turns out to have asbestos, meaning we are now an EPA superfund site <sigh>

Crappy, this would be funny, if it was a movie. And PaulaO, PM me so I can contribute to the boots please. Maybe buy some Leather New, or cool socks, or neat boot-pulls.

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Must be the season. I did start doing a little more stretching of the muscles around the ankle and calf; squats if you can call them that, toe stretches and rotations. I'm hoping to get a few therapy sessions. From this side of the injury, I can say be patient, and don't let things get tight. It's a...

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Good to know. I don't take them the same day, or even on consecutive days.

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I found a tiny container of a clear liquid that I put in caps of pop bottles and old pill bottles. Those then got placed way in the back of cabinets and behind the refrigerator. In two days, no ants!

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Skating... I tried to learn in my 20's. I fell over a lot, and lying there splayed on the ice surrounded by people with sharp knives attached to their feet freaked me out. I could see my fingers getting sliced off by some other random beginner. So I gave that up! On my first skating effort I actual...

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Aghhhhhh! Thank you all. No therapy yet, other than the doc telling me to flex my foot, especially my toes toward my shin. We'll see what he has to say Wednesday. Don't know, other than walking, what therapy might be fitting, since the ankle was only involved extemporaneously via the broken tib fib....

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It's been eight weeks since I broke my leg. I am hobbling around with a cane, occasionally feeling pretty good, occasionally in huge pain that actually feels like what I remember of shin splints. (Which is kind of odd because the plate on the tibia is on the other side of the bone and lower.) Then t...

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You have me confused with someone else. You must admit, this is hardly the first time you've presented exactly such a dilemma.

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Staying off the merrygoround.

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Oh no!! Seriously, what do you need?

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I hope you change barns. The new place sounds wonderful, and only five minutes from home!!! I don't get when people talk about leaving barns as if they think they can never see their friends again. I just don't get that. Some of my horse friends board, some have their horses at home. We usually get ...

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From Fl to VA in April??? I'd thing the flow north would just be beginning. Good luck, and vent away. Stall rest is awful. Liken it to bed-rest. Aghhhhh!

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I've done both. When I mixed my own, I was using food-grade metal 55 gallon barrels. I just made sure to really empty them, and use a dry rag to wipe the grain dust out before mixing a new batch. Never had any problems in 30+ years of doing that.

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Anyone who thinks rodents can't/won't chew through anything that isn't metal hasn't met a red squirrel. Yet.

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NOTHING other than metal! Mice/rats/squirrels/rodents will chew through anything not metal. I used assorted metal cans and bins for years, now I use an old chest freezer. Love it because EVERYTHING is in one place i.e. extra dog and cat food, bird seed, assorted grains. Rodent proof.

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And I know it's difficult, and the vet probably has suggested it, but "bed rest". No outside time off a leash, quiet time in the house, for six weeks.

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I had a horse who developed heaves after a winter at a boarding facility with bad hay. Turned out an allergy to oaks exacerbated the situation, and moving him to an oak-free area really helped.

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Keys, great to get that update! And you guys stayed in CO for the winter due to this new adventure?

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The discussion that I most likely to disagree with is the use of the left eye to assess threats. I'm currently handling a young stallion and when ever he is uncertain, he will assume a "leading" position -- standing at the handler's right facing the same direction as the handler is. I thi...

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Really. I guess I have always kind of liked that secret fact known only to true horse people. In years past, it has made apparent, the posers from the real folk.

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Since I was on one leg and still on pain meds, I brushed my teeth! Heal well!

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Nice!

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Just want to say my mom put interior shutters in their bedroom when she changed the wallpaper. They look great! Good luck!

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Use channel locks or vise grips to move mats. No need for something special.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... ser-brood/

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Oh no!

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dasher wrote:We now have a light dusting of snow on everything. It starts out so innocently, becomes beautiful, then turns into a giant PITA.

One day at a time, I guess!

And there you have Winter. Hang in there folks!

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Nephew and friend are in Baltimore for the next week. Hoping the storm tracks south and east of them. How's everybody doing out there?

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Oh my god! That makes me physically ill. You've been around long enough to know I DO know exactly what you're feeling. I am so, so, so, sorry. Beware of the lingering depression and PTSD. SO many hugs to you Shirrine. If we could, I'd just hold you while you cried.

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I love it when our discussions go off the Silly Train tracks!

Sorry Bascar, hope you're ok with it.

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Ah geez...Hugs to all, RIP Fluffy, I will think of you every time I move a turtle.

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Nephew just told me on a flight back from Germany there was a VERY unhappy cat stowed somewhere that caterwauled the entire trip. We who own cats know the sound; mournful, guttural, drawn-out wail. He said you couldn't even enjoy the silence because you simply waited for the cat to start again.

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DO fly Delta! The Therapy stuff in Federal. Don't know about the allergy stuff.

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Well that was quick. Turns out I was wrong, it was Tom's friend's flight. Nonetheless, here are his responses to the questions: "The seat next to the turkey, who had his own seat, was unoccupied. Flight was almost full but not quite. I don't think anyone refused, however the person with the ani...

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Fergusnc, Swing! I can just see that! I would love to ride to that! (Maybe THERE is my hidden Freestyle)

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I've copied your questions and will send them to him. Don't know where he is at the moment, but will reply ASAP.

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Men are from Mars...

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How many of you leave a radio on in your barn all the time? Why? What kind of station are you tuned to? Why? I'll usually turn the radio to NPR while I'm working in the barn, but never leave it on.

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I think you should be pleased, Tarlo, to have inspired such a high level of discourse! :lol: I am still hoping somebody will come up with a solution to carrying the phone and not dropping it in the toilet, water bucket, or whatever. When I had my little old-style flip phone, all was well. It slippe...

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It's not only real, but a dear friend of mine, a former student, was the First Class flight attendant on that flight! Lawd, the puns available...! My friend has the most amazing, dry sense of humor and delivery, and via his work has stories to tell, that I keep telling him he has to do stand-up in h...

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How long has it been since the second lunch! Per the first lunch, it was ten days before contact again. Are you sure he's not married?

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Well this thread has certainly dissolved.

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I fancy myself pretty knowledgeable about real estate and there is NOTHING I can add to what has already been mentioned. If I were you, I'd print this off and check off everyone's comments when you've accomplished them. Wonderful suggestions!

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